Improvement in wash-boilers



UNITED STATES JOSEPH ADAMS, OF NEWARK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND O. H

OF GRANVILLE,.OHIO.

PATENT OEEIcE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,349, dated May27,1873 application filed May 14, 1873.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osEPH ADAMS, of Newark, in the county of Lickingand State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement inWash-Boilers and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which-Figure lis a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 2 is a transversesection through line .r .r of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthefalse bottom.

The invention relates to the construction of parts which make up awash-boiler, and consists in certain improvements which will first befully described in connection with all that is necessary to a fullunderstanding thereof, and then clearly pointed out in the cla-im.

In the drawing, A represents a wash-boiler having a suitable cover, a. Bis a false bottom, conveXed-at b on its upper surface, and concavedbeneath to form a steam-generating chamber, C. It is also provided withtwo vertical pipes, b1 b1, for the escape of the water when it is undert e pressure of the generated steam, and also wi h a channelway, b2, oneach side, open at the top to receive the water that trickles down theconvex surface b, and open at each end to allow it to flow into thesteamgenerating chamber O. D is the perforated shelf on which theclothes are laid, and which has holes d d that allow it to be passedover the pipes b1 b1, and to be held in position over the convex surfaceof false bottom B. E are pipes open at the lower ends e, closed at theupper-e', and having bottom and side perfo-` rations that afford anoutlet for the water in various directions. By the construction of thesepipes E in two parts, detachable from the pipes b1, they may be morereadily cleaned,

and are less in the way of the removal of the other parts.

The operation of the boiler is as follows: The parts being all inposition, and the clothes located upon the perforated shelf, the water`is impoured until it reaches nearly or quite to the dome of chamber C. fAfter the water reaches the boiling-point, and steam is generated, thatpart of water near the pipes b1 b1 is forced up these pipes and intoAthe perforated end-closed pipes E E, from whence it issues in numerousjets which sprinkle the clothes over their entire surface. lhe waterthen passes through the clothes and perforated shelf, runs down theconvex sides of surface b into the channel-ways b2, and linally into thechamber C.

I am aware that this mode of applying steam to eject water upon theclothes `is\a very old idea, which has been long exemplified inpractice; but

What I do esteem new, and. desire toprotect by Letters Patent, is

1. A top-convexed false bottom, B, con-` structed with subjacentchannel-ways b2 b2, open on top to communicate with surface b, and openat each end to discharge water into the steamagenerating chamber C, asshown and described.

2. The perforated clothes-shelf D, having v the holes d d, combined, asdescribed, with a false bottom, B, having the vertical pipes b1 bl, sothat the former will fit overuthe latter, and be held in the manner setforth.

JOSEPH ADAMS. Witnesses:

SoLoN C. KEMoN, CHAs. A. PETTIT,

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